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"December, thou whose hallowing hands
On shuddering seas and hardening lands
Set as a sacramental sign
The seal of Christmas felt on earth
As witness toward a new year's birth
Whose promise makes thy death divine,
The crowning joy that comes of thee
Makes glad all grief on land or sea."
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
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For "Odd", I immediately had the idea of combining Ohropax® earplugs and my new Sennheiser earbuds. The idea probably came to my mind so easily because my old, trusted, super comfy custom-made earbuds stopped working properly just recently when the right earpiece went "deaf" all of a sudden. I had them sent to the manufacturer, and even though they don't make those earphones anymore (only hearing aids, their original field of business), I still hope that they can fix it. The irony here is that I bought these earphones at the audiologist (you couldn't buy them anywhere else) years ago, because to make the earpieces, the audiologist had to make a silicone earmold, secured with a cotton thread so you could safely remove the silicone once it had hardened. So I sat there, waiting with my ears totally muffled by the silicone, and rummaging about the pretty likely next step following the purchase of in-ear headphones: hearing aids if I turn up the volume too loudly...
The width of the little scene is 5 cm/1,9 inches, so the width of the frame, negative space included, is about 5,5 cm/2,1 inches. The final image is an in-camera focus stacking made of 15 images. And yes, I have bought these colourful Ohropax® earplugs just for the theme, because I thought the standard yellow or orange earplugs would look a little boring for my "Sister Disco" setup ;) The earplugs come in four colours, blue, green, yellow, and orange, and all have a nice marbling pattern. I decided to use only three of the earplugs so the scene wouldn't get too big and there would also be some negative space to let the image "breathe". Processed in DXO, Color Efex Pro, and Photoshop.
Soundtrack: CTRL/STRG+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTTY6Z51mO0
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice, sunny week ahead!
Fossil dunes are hardened sand dunes shaped uniquely by desert wind . Though it looks hard these are breakable sandstones which changes its shapes very slowly unlike normal sand dunes. Normal sand dunes moves and changes shapes frequently according to wind.
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, or earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes in the desert in dry, hot areas (Al watba - Abudhabi UAE)
In this building you can see three levels of cells. The wide hallway is where they would show movies. Some medical services and haircuts. Phone booths -3 only.
Below, where the stairs are, contain the dungeons where serious criminals were kept. You can see they had limited light and seclusion. One man was sent there for 30 years before he died - a mass murderer.
The two images look in opposite direction down the same hall and I took them a couple hours apart.
It is suggested as a prisoner better not to snore at night!
Peace and freedom and justice and the law were broken by the police during the demonstration in Berlin;
the government, which is responsible for it,
now shows its true totalitarian face shamelessly open.
Now everything that was feared for months is coming true -
wake up, people all over the world,
and try to stop this development all together!
[29. August 2020]
Calm seas today, but tomorrow? Well, it may be tough, with Great Southern Ocean storm waves ripping into the rugged limestone cliffs of Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
But, these rock butts help protect the foreshores, as tough and hardened having weathered 1000s of storms.
You can see his cliff face is determination plus and no-nonsense. The millions of green plants nearby clap his every move, which also grow on top of his long hard head!
What a guy!! Hail! who we might call "Brutus The Protector!"
Canon EOS 7D Mark II, Tamron 16-300mm.
A wonderful day, took lots of shots, so not going to waste any! People in the valley were walking around in the foggy gloom, with rather glum faces, people up here were jogging, bike riding, dog walking etc, all smiles and greetings 'isn't it a lovely day' ......just shows how the conditions affect us. Minus 4C today.
Our friend has an automatics workshop and kindly lent us this transmission housing to put the circular fire on top of. My homework for the 'weekend' was to get a photo showing shallow depth of field. Think this one shows it pretty well 👍 Not that it's by any means a challenge with the amazing kit I was able to borrow. The 70-200 lens is an absolute treat. My hands are still sore from holding it. Better harden up eh!
Happy Sunday everyone, I'm off to be an intern at a photo shoot, so exciting and a tad nervous too!
Teneral is a stage of development in an insects life cycle that the insect experiences shortly after molting from its final nymph stage. Both dragonflies and damselflies can look like a completely different species versus the adults or they can look like adults but without their colouring yet they can be hard to identify as per species. In this stage their exoskeleton hasn't hardened enough to attain its final colouration. During this state they are more vulnerable but may be mobile and fly during this part of development.
This particular damselfly remained on this extension of a log just above the water line for a considerable time and did go airborne eventually but I can't be sure of its identity.
I've been trying to capture this in the right light for a couple of years now and finally this evening I think I might have captured what i wanted. This Stone Circle is almost hidden away on the moors and I wanted to capture it as the sun was setting
The shackle of a rusty padlock.
Please enlarge to see the rusty detail.
Reverse mounted my lens to give a greater macro ability.
This odd cloud cover had me wondering as to its makeup. As it got closer to the ground, it became darker, appeared heavier, and began to breakup. To me, it was imitating the actions of a blacksmith on a hardened anvil.
It was hammer time, I thought. And the clouds were taking out their relentless actions on the mountain below. Ironically, this aggressive looking weather was happening at Welcome Beach. Typically an area known for its calm and quiet atmosphere.
Photographed last week in the Heathcote National Park, New South Wales, Australia. I think it's at its teneral stage, when it has recently moulted and its exoskeleton is yet to harden and get its final colouration. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Focus stack using Zyrene
... but the other horses stayed out of the photo.
B61 and 4910 curve through Harden with 3MS8 wagon transfer from Albury to Goulburn and Sydney.
2021-11-09 SSR B61-4910 Harden 3MS8
For the first time I tried doing a livestream as I was set up to take this shot. I know I am NOT a videographer! (I'm barely a photographer!) Anyway I did at least manage to get this.
In February we spent a few days in Biei, located in the central region of Hokkaido, Japan. It is a hilly region with nice trees and waterfalls. We walked in hardened snow on farmland and found the skeletons of some lonely greenhouses waiting for spring.
I processed a photographic and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.
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These sculptures were situated on a small grassed area which to reach one has to climb many stairs, in fact wherever you go in The Rocks stairs have to be climbed!! The pattern on the left hand sculpture is shadow from a nearby tree.
Sydney was first settled by the British as a penal colony on January 26 1788 when 400 settlers and 750 convicts arrived on the First Fleet of 11 ships. The convicts had been sentenced to transportation for crimes as minor as stealing food - though there were hardened criminals among them.
More convicts arrived from England, and later Ireland. These and the soldiers sent to guard them were settled in the area named "The Rocks". They built huts of unseasoned timber or mud reinforced with twigs from trees. None remain.
The Rocks has the biggest concentration of historic buildings in Sydney. Most have been 'recycled' and house shops, restaurants, art galleries, and the like. Some terrace houses (strings of two and three storey houses built side-by-side and sharing common dividing walls) survived and are now much sought after as places to live. The area is dotted with pubs, including the Lord Nelson which has traded since 1842 and the hero of Waterloo since 1845. The 'Hero' was notorious as a source of unwilling crewmen for ships which were short-handed. Men were made drunk and dragged off by 'press gangs' through a tunnel which ran under the hotel to a house across the street from where they were taken to the nearby wharves.